New: Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic

[Ken]

While I agree with you, combining the words Land Rover and Jeep is a very bad idea. Traditionally ( in Coventry at least) like combining Jaguar and Land Rover.
Jeep did make a superb product. I ran a petrol Grand Cherokee in the 90's. Not only was it very good off road but its road holding was also.
It cruised at 85 mph at 2500 revs, pulled anything without effort and when I sold at a quarter of a million miles was faultless, rust free and as strong as new. I only parted with it because it was no longer what I needed.
By a long long way the best car I've ever owned. Great to have fun over rivalries though.

[Archie]

There's nothing wrong with Jeep, after all that was Maurice Wilkes inspiration for the Land Rover.

Just don't mix / confuse the two.

[Craig T]

I had a look for this program last night and downloaded an episode to my Sky box, it was the Jag XJS episode.

Not too bad actually. Has a side story about restoring a house and buying and selling cars along the way to fund it.

Shows how out of touch I am with Jag prices though. He went to look at a 1991 Jag XJS soft top with the 4 litre straight 6 engine, it hadn't ran for 4 years after being parked up in a garage. I was thinking, £1500 - £2000 max and the seller started at £12000!!!!
I remember pulling apart a 1991 Jag XJR-S in order to get the running gear for my Cobra look-a-like. Think I gave £200 for everything I needed....

Craig.

[simonbav]

I had a look for this program last night and downloaded an episode to my Sky box, it was the Jag XJS episode.

Not too bad actually. Has a side story about restoring a house and buying and selling cars along the way to fund it.

Shows how out of touch I am with Jag prices though. He went to look a 1991 Jag XJS soft top with the 4 litre straight 6 engine, it hadn't ran for 4 years after being parked up in a garage. I was thinking, £1500 - £2000 max and the seller started at £12000!!!!
I remember pulling apart a 1991 Jag XJR-S in order to get the running gear for my Cobra look-a-like. Think I gave £200 for everything I needed....

Craig.

I can resonate with your out of touch feeling. When did the world become so strange?

[nathanglasgow]

First 3 episodes are on YouTube.

[2DieselMan]

All these car programmes for me are for entertainment purposes only.    As regarding work done, hours required and costs I believe they are all mostly a figment of imagination. 

The one aspect they that all appear to have in common, Ant Anstead Born Mechanic, Hamond's Workshop etc is
 
1. Car Work - Car Restoration Company Makes a Huge Loss !

2. Filming Company of the Car Restoration / Car Restoration Company Makes Huge Profit !

Conclusion I wish I could run a Car Restoration & Company like this !

Hence both Hamond's Workshop losses (even at over £90 + VAT / Hr) and Ant's Parents House rebuild will easily be pay for many times over by the TV Filming.

[TimV]

Would you have a link? When I do a search on the Internet I can't find it (maybe as I'm outside the UK?).

Cheers!
Boris

Here is the programme website, can you see this?
https://www.discoveryplus.com/gb/show/ant-anstead-born-mechanic

[Rusty66]

Thanks, yes, I can access the website but can't find the show. I've watched the first three instalments on YouTube yesterday and hopefully the one with the Landrover will appear there, too.

[Theshed]

I'll go with Landie or Landy but definitely not truck.
Trucks are somewhat bigger !

[jkhackney]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Jeep.
What's Jeep? It is nor wheel, nor propshaft,
Nor leaf spring, nor starter handle, nor any other part
Belonging to a Truck. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a Land Rover
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Landy would, were he not Landy call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Landy, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
 

[Birdsnest55]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Jeep.
What's Jeep? It is nor wheel, nor propshaft,
Nor leaf spring, nor starter handle, nor any other part
Belonging to a Truck. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a Land Rover
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Landy would, were he not Landy call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Landy, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
 

It's the Switz Poet Laureate

Paul

[TimV]

Thanks, yes, I can access the website but can't find the show. I've watched the first three instalments on YouTube yesterday and hopefully the one with the Landrover will appear there, too.

The programme won't be broadcast till Thursday the 12th, so that's why it isn't on there yet.

[Theshed]

Ok, I'm off again.
My LANDROVER is NOT a Jeep. Is your BMW an Austin Seven ?
My Series is NOT a Defender. Is your Beetle a Golf ?

[Alan Drover]

What a waste of an hour! Too much house and garden, not enough Land Rover. I suppose because it's an SWB 7 seater station wagon it's relatively rare. The bulkhead farce was ridiculous but at least he knew it was to be the later bulkhead. Fortunately for him the dashboard top looked ok. I thought £7,500 was a bit steep and I reckon the vendor was cashing in on its "rarity." Sold at auction for £12,500.
No mention was made regarding the state of the chassis.
The MOT history of HMB 357T is interesting as in the earlier years there were a lot of corrosion failures.
Altogether a waste of time but that's television for you. I was looking forward to far more detail.

[Worf]

So adding fake "patina" makes it more desirable 

Thats an hour of my life I wont get back.